Phrygian cap Phryg"i*an cap`
A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by
Orientals, assumed to have been conicalin shape. It has been
adopted in modern art as the so-called {liberty cap}, or {cap
of liberty}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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